Benfica enjoyed a 0-2 away win on Friday evening to remain joint-top of the Portuguese league with Porto. They will have enjoyed a day off while Celtic played on Saturday and will two days training before tomorrow’s game. By contrast, Celtic player will have rested yesterday and will get no more than a run out inside Estadio da Luz tonight. With games coming thick and fast at the moment, hopefully rest is the most important requirement for the players.
Benfica shredded Spartak for most of the second half in Moscow but contrived to miss what chances they created, allowing the Russians their only win of the group so far. The return game in Lisbon was a comfortable win for the home team.
Neil Lennon has some major tactical decisions to make. He will surely acknowledge the danger Benfica pose but has to find a way of scoring an away goal or two. Match day one between Celtic and Benfica brought a 0-0 draw, ostensibly a good result for the visitors, but the group has matured since then. Both teams played that game as though it was an away game; Benfica were happy to defend and Celtic, in their first Champions League game since 2008, were keen to feel their way back into the tournament.
This time Benfica will attack with speed and hope that Celtic open up a little more than they did against Barcelona. It’s important also to acknowledge that while Benfica are no Barcelona, they will also be less predictable than the Catalans, we will not have it all our own way in the air.
It’s going to be a game tiring 90 minutes where the use of fresh legs could be crucial but an early Celtic goal would allow Neil Lennon to set his stall out clearly.
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Morning all!!
Hyped up for tonight – glory beckons!
Will watch the Spartak – Barca game hoping for a draw or an away win.
Game will be tough – but I honestly feel we can get a score draw which could see us through to the last 16: we have scored 8 goals in our 4 away matches in the CL so far – another couple tonight would do nicely!
HH!!
About four hours kip and I’m as bright as a button, it’s like Christmass.
There will be no discord from me today, if anyone sees me slipping into it, give me a slap and get me back on message, today is all about the team and supporting them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOsdS5irjAo
Hail Hail
Got a similar feeling just now to that of the Seville year but am almost too scared to see it. We could be on the verge of something special this year.
Guts still churning but!!
C’mon the hoops
Hail Hail
The Scotsman, comments on the Celtic articles are fun
Estadio………
Great to see u posting, and such an inspirational piece.
Make you kindae believe theirs a destiny about tonight’s game.
Hail Hail Estadio
C’mon the hoops.
YNWA
Competitive Record v Portuguese Clubs
23.09.64 ICFC1/1 A Leixoes D 1-1 Murdoch (31)
07.10.64 ICFC1/2 H Leixoes W 3-0 Chalmers 2 (14, 83), Murdoch (88 pen)
Agg:- 4-1
12.11.69 EC2/1 H Benfica W 3-0 Gemmell (2), Wallace (41), Hood (69)
26.11.69 EC2/2 A Benfica L 0-3
Agg:- 3-3, Celtic progressed on toss of coin
22.10.75 ECWC2/1 A Boavista d 0-0
05.11.75 ECWC2/2 H Boavista W 3-1 Dalglish (35 secs), Edvaldsson (20), Deans (85)
Agg:- 3-1
19.10.83 UEFA2/1 A Sporting Lisbon L 0-2
02.11.83 UEFA2/2 H Sporting Lisbon W 5-0 Burns (17), McAdam (43), McClair (45). MacLeod (57), McGarvey (59)
Agg:- 5-2
20.10.93 UEFA2/1 H Sporting Lisbon W 1-0 Creaney (9)
03.11.93 UEFA2/2 A Sporting Lisbon L 0-2
Agg:- 1-2
15.09.98 UEFA2/1 A Vitoria Guimares W 2-1 Larsson (1), Donnelly (70)
29.09.98 UEFA2/2 H Vitoria Guimares W 2-1 Stubbs (38), Larsson (90)
Agg:- 4-2
25.09.01 CL H Porto W 1-0 Larsson (36)
17.10.01 CL A Porto L 0-3
10.04.03 UEFASF1 H Boavista D 1-1 Larsson (50)
24.04.03 UEFASF2 A Boavista W 1-0 Larsson (78)
Agg:- 2-1
21.05.03 UEFAF N Porto L 2-3 Larsson 2 (47, 57)
17.10.06 CL H Benfica W 3-0 Miller 2 (56, 66), Pearson (90)
01.11.06 CL A Benfica L 0-3
24.10.07 CL A Benfica L 0-1
06.11.07 CL H Benfica W 1-0 McGeady (45)
28.07.10 CLQ3/1 A Sporting Braga L 0-3
04.08.10 CLQ3/2 H Sporting Braga W 2-1 Hooper (51) Juarez (78)
19.09.12 CL H Benfica d 0-0
P 24 W 12 D 4 L 8 F 31 A 26
Morning,all.
This is another big day for our club. A score-draw will do us,and all with a game to go!
Our boys have already proven themselves worthy of being BHOYS,and now we are watching them progress as men.
Men to be proud of as a fan, men to fear as an opponent.
The ties against Barcelona woke the world to our resurgence,tonight we have an opportunity to prove that we deserve our place in the spotlight.
Tonight is our chance to shout…….
CELTIC ARE BACK WITH A BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ESPN 7:45 10.00 am AEST Benfica v Celtic
WINNINGEMMELL
Henrik enjoyed playing the Portuguese,did he not?
By the way,I would like to thank ESTADIO for his enlightening posts overnight.
Apart from the obvious that it’s smashin’ to see him back-he joins a wee band of much-missed posters such as JHILDAY,PISTON BROKE and SYDNEY TIM,etc who have recently poked their heads above the parapet-I now know that….
Those smashing wee patterns I’ve been seeing for years as I drift into sleep are called PHOSPHENES.
Cheers,matey,I really do live and learn……
Blimey,Benfica’s manager,Jorge Jesus,looks like a young Denis Law………
Hat-trick for Bobby,what I would give for one of them from say Tony tonight……..
Estadio:
Do you remember that 250k I lent you last christmas?
Good morning CQNers,
Back to matters football.
Tonight’s watch word has to be discipline, something that’s been our forte but I think we may see a Porto-like performance from Benfica in a bid to unsettle us.
Kit,
I think he donated it to the Sevco share issue.
TimsinOhio 07:45:
Do my best to meet on Saturday but very much doubt I will make. However, Doc is Neil Lennon will look after you.
Keep in touch.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Good morning from the Chilled Chilterns…
Two matches to go for last sixteen qualification and we are looking good.
We have the chance of Barca vanquishing one opponent before we kick a ball, then we have the opportunity to put ourselves in a prime position with our closest challengers.
It has been Neil’s team’s indominable spirit and some exquisite exellence from talented young players that have got us here.
More of the same please Celtic…
Lennybhoy,
You not supposed to be working?
Lol…I am, don’t start until 08:00, usually go on for a wee while before the Clock strikes 08:00. Ooops, better go.
Until we meet again.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
According to some Sean Fallon is a Freeman of Sligo.
Charlie Tully was once a Rangers Player.
I see Aberdeen flopped, as opposed to Celtic dominating throughout ……LOL
I’m hearing there have been a run of crisis loans down the broo, all for the sum of £500, looks like there’s been a plan all along :oD))))
COME ON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN
Legendary Spartak striker Sergey Gorlukovich.
“Yes, you must always believe that you have some chances any time, against any team.
When taking about Spartak game against Barcelona, I need to admit these chances are negligible. If Emeri decides to change tactics against Barcelona (previous Bar:Spa game) he will lose that game with a high score.”
ellboy – i am neil lennon, ynwa.
23:42 on 19 November, 2012
Sorry for the late reply.
However, I didn’t say Hamas was a moderate group.
I said they were not Al Qaida. I said they were fighting to defend their people and ever shrinking homeland from an aggressive and hugely powerful neighbour.
At no time did I say they were moderate.
every time we play Benfica my mind drifts back to 1969 and our first leg which we won 3 nil.
my wee dad took me to that game and sat me on one of the barriers to watch.
dont remember to much about the game itself except that we were packed in like sardines.
i was only 9 yrs old and loving every min of it.
my dads mate had brought a flask of coffee with him and poured himself a cup after the first goal.
he then dropped the flask and gave me the coffee to hold.
of course as he went scurrying after the flask i decided to have a fly drink.
after much coughing and spluttering on my part i was then told that i had just had just my first taste of brandy yuck
think i will toast them both with one tonight.
a memories.
Celtic to win it tonight with the odd goal in 3.
memoriesanddreams.csc
Betting on Spartak fans website
Barcelona win 50,80 %
Spartak win 35,2 %
Draw 14 %
RTC, on Paul McConville blog
rangerstaxcase
November 19, 2012 at 11:50 pm
Just a point about Green’s claims about future share prices doubling.
Anyone with any training in business valuation will tell you that the the current value of a business is the present value of all future free cash flows.
Think about that for just a minute.
If you can predict all of the future cash flows today, then the value of the company today will include all of that information. That means predictions of prices doubling next year is just illogical tosh. In fact it is worse than that. When a director of company that is planning a listing predicts that its price will double, he is misleading investors.
Stock prices increase when investors discover new information- i.e. their expectation of future profits increases or the amount they are willing to pay for £1 of profit changes in the future. However, none this is not knowable at the time of listing by anyone.
Sevco may well produce fantastic (literally) projections of future profits, but that sets today’s price not next year’s. The possible explanations for someone claiming that their share price will double within a year include (but are not limited to) stupidity, ignorance, and deception. Of course, many of these may exist in combination.
rangerstaxcase
November 19, 2012 at 11:57 pm
Just to further clarify the point made above-
Even if you predict today that profits will double next year, that is built into today’s price. It does not affect the share price next year. Next year’s share price changes in response to changes in projections for future profits at that time. If we knew the profits for future years that we will estimate next year, we would simply calculate today’s price based upon that data.
It is conceptually difficult to grasp for the uninitiated at first, but no less true for that.
Is this clear?
:oD))))
Perfectly clear, thank you
Morning all from another dank, wet and windy North Ayrshire. Nothing new there then.
Big, big day for the Celtic. Here’s hoping for another great result in Europe.
Estadio
What a series of posts ,welcome back and God bless you.Many on here could learn from you.
Hail Hail.
Solidarity with victimised fans
The Trust has for some months now been receiving very worrying indications of what appears to be almost a vendetta against Celtic fans in general, and the Green Brigade in particular, by Strathclyde Police/FoCus.
We have raised this on at least two occasions with the Club.
This has now come to a head and together with the unprecedented treatment we received at Tannadice (based on ‘intelligence’ from Strathclyde Police that there was an ‘arranged fight between Celtic fans and Dundee Utd fans!), we feel strongly that we need to unite and stand up to this.
The Fans Against Criminalisation campaign will be meeting early next week to plan our response/strategy. However, in the meantime the Green Brigade have decided to boycott the next two home games beginning with the game against Inverness on Saturday. In solidarity with them, we are calling on all supporters to stand up for the 12th man at the 12th minute and chant ‘Stand up for the Green Brigade’.
Please spread the word, bring banners, flags and whistles or just bring yourself but at the 12th minute, stand up for Celtic fans and
Stand up for the Green Brigade!
taken from the Celtic trust website
who have raised the issue with the club twice!
Sean Fallon @SeanFallonCelt
Great to see @CelticFC back at the Estadio Nacional today. This is the moment the celebrations began there 45 yrs ago: pic.twitter.com/kyCptJ4H
Brilliant picture posted by Sean Fallon
Great to see Estadio back, and in such form!
Do yourself a favour and go read his submissions on page14
monteblanco
09:09 on
20 November, 2012
taken from the Celtic trust website
who have raised the issue with the club twice!
……….
why does the statement from the trust not say what celtics reply was or indeed if they never got one?
Also was this matter brought up at the agm?
And Celtics statement yesterday on the accusations yesterday was pretty clear on that issue
https://twitter.com/SeanFallonCelt/status/270811536812015616/photo/1
Try again hope this works
Very nervous about tonight. It almost seems to much to hope for that this young team can show the kind of maturity needed AGAIN to get something from this game.
Timing your performances to peak in this competition usually takes a few years to learn and yet here we are.
I’ll take anything out of the game tonight and be grateful for it.
I was in Lisbon for the last game when “the Heid” beat us 3-0.
Took a taxi to the Estadio Nacional and by chance the team and the Lions were there at the same time.
It’s hard to describe the feeling of walking on the pitch and down the tunnel. Big Tam Gemmell was holding court outside the dressing rooms and he said the place was more or less exactly as it was in ’67.
Any of you lucky enough to be there, it’s a MUST DO!